Guerrilla Communists
Dedicated to turning the Communist Party of Ireland into a communist party – a democratic, vibrant, united and confident political alternative.
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Background to Guerrilla Communists
Guerrilla Communists is made up of communists whose intention is to cause the Communist Party of Ireland (CPI) to organise as an actual communist party rather than it its current form as a party that calls itself the Communist Party of Ireland
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An overview of the Communist Party of Ireland
A critical overall assessment of the recent history of the CPI and the events that led to its descent into ignominy
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Comment & Opinion
CPI website – (STILL) dismal, uninspiring and out of date
Operating in a bubble – when will they ever learn?
Socialism – with CPI characteristics
The CPI and Palestine – getting on the bandwagon?
Four years on – the CPI still fails to defend itself
Communist Party of Ireland (Groucho Marxist) in disarray
Archive:
Digging Deeper
“What is the Communist Party?”
The naivety and lack of political or any other awareness of the CPI General Secretary, Jimmy Corcoran, is exposed in the title of an article in the April, 2025 issue of Socialist Voice. He asks a specific question, “What is the Communist Party?” but goes on to answer a completely different question – what is a communist party? Or, more accurately, what should the fundamentals of a communist party be?
In a series of short essay we try to answer some of these questions
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CPI National Congresses past and future – a critical analysis
In the lead-up to the recent National Congress of the CPI, we looked at what became of the existing political resolution, and at how the party fared since the 2022 congress. Over three parts, we show in some detail, how the CPI degeneration went from bad to worse
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The CPI defied its own Constitution
Readers of our site often comment on the content and on our style of approach. One comment we received from a person we believe to be a member of the CPI complained that our claims against the CPI or Socialist Voice are not specific enough and that they are more subjective than objective. While we do not agree, we start our response with a quite specific piece that, hopefully, will be specific enough to elicit a response from the CPI itself
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How the CPI interacts with the trade union movement
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